This is complex
Take this all into context
This the truth and law, this my coup de grace
But honestly this a calm flex
This is Ice T meets Sophocles
On 808s spitting isosceles
They wanna keep me under lock and key
Until I peel off without dropping tea
Tryna get out, I'm deep in ya conscience
Truth that I Tell tryna penetrate the nonsense
This right here, ain't learned in no college
School of hard knocks, graduated with honors
Prayers from my mama, daddy showed the ropes
Streets taught me sense, Jesus showed me hope
Now I campaign telling y'all we need change
Until you know we can like Obama with the votes
This right here is years of fine crafting
Patience, purpose, tears for my passion
This tailor made to increase what I'm slacking
This right here from God so stop asking
This is what I know, this is what I believe
This is my experience, this is what I've seen
This kept me up at night, yeah this is what I dream
And I do it for the people, and do it for the King
Don't speak for me, real talk don't speak for me
Got my own thoughts, got my own voice, got my own path where I need to be
Don't speak for me, real talk don't speak for me
Long as God's in control, ima speak from my soul, you can hate all you want but if you feel me let's go!
Don't say nothin', don't say nothin', don't say nothin', don't say nothin'
Don't say nothin', don't say nothin', don't say nothin', don't say nothin'
Don't speak for me, real talk don't speak for me
Got my own thoughts, got my own voice, got my own path where I need to be
Don't speak for me, real talk don't speak for me
Long as God's in control, ima speak from my soul, you can hate all you want but if you feel me let's go
Look at this nonsense
We live in a time when everyone feels they're politically conscious
Morale is low cuz the morals we thought that we had, man we lost it
Politicians obnoxious, but they feeling they God sent, but ain't answered no problems, so who gonna solve em
Be clear, this ain't conservative or liberal
Neither one of them can define how I live so
Better know the rules, they affect how we live though
I'm raising up the bar while y'all living in limbo
Ancestors died give a chance for our life
Generations later still demanding our rights
The scales ain't equal, 'cause the people live evil, words spelled backwards describing our plight
We Still need lawyers, lobbyists and activists
Politicians, judges, tell us what we're stacked against
Educated people, enlighten us where we're lacking sense
A unified cause, so everyone knows the practices
I want you to remember, when you're gone til November
You think it's all sweet like Splenda
While you got plans for your alternate agendas
That I'm my brother's keeper, right before I end ya
Don't speak for me, real talk don't speak for me
Got my own thoughts, got my own voice, got my own path where I need to be
Don't speak for me, real talk don't speak for me
Long as God's in control, ima speak from my soul, you can hate all you want but if you feel me let's go!
Don't say nothin', don't say nothin', don't say nothin', don't say nothin'
Don't say nothin', don't say nothin', don't say nothin', don't say nothin'
Don't speak for me, real talk don't speak for me
Got my own thoughts, got my own voice, got my own path where I need to be
Don't speak for me, real talk don't speak for me
Long as God's in control, ima speak from my soul, you can hate all you want but if you feel me let's go
Young black dapper divine
It's some thoughts that's been plaguing my mind
As we kneel by the sand and we drawing the lines
Whose bloody hands threw the rocks that they hide?
All of these years they've been blocking progression
But float in our tears as they make their confession
Evangelicals, living heretical
The love that you lack ima call into question
Oh y'all woke and black now?
Guess you tired of the background?
But Since we all back on track now
I got a message for you: don't back down
Voice of the abused and black towns
Who were poached for conferences & pack crowds
Who was told that their homes were never that sound
When you challenge they norms, now you act proud?
But I was made in God's image, but so was every slave in the kitchen
Every civil leader on a mission, you see how we living?
Change ya point of view to see the vision
The sum of all fears brings division
A passion of Christ means a passion for life
Equality across, because we all passed the price
Before you ever say what I need to be
Look ya self in the mirror don't speak for me